The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Romney: "Obama wasted his presidency on Obamacare"

    By Oxy Mora on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 4:33pm |

    "My opponent, Mr. Romney, said I wasted my presidency on healthcare. That's right, I wasted my presidency trying to bring health care to 30 million people, people in the middle class or trying to get into the middle class. In other words, if you help the middle class, you're wasting your time. 

    Mr. Romney won't waste time on the middle class. 

    That's essentially what he said, isn't it? Kind of reveals more about him than me. 

    I don't call working to achieve something you believe in a waste of time. Thanks to the Supreme Court the road is now longer and harder. But it doesn't mean the journey is over, much as Mr. Romney and his allies in Congress would like to think so.

    I wonder if Seniors who spent less of their precious funds on medications think I wasted my time. 

    I wonder if those whose lives were saved because insurance companies didn't drop them from plans think that I wasted my time. 

    Do young Americans think I wasted my presidency because I took the time to secure better coverage for them on their parents' existing healthcare policies?

    Mr. Romney's strategy in this election is to denigrate me and sit on the fence when it comes to offering his own concrete solutions . Because of his extremist allies in Congress he is prevented from working towards a bi-partisan revised plan for healthcare in the wake of this Supreme Court ruling. It's a ruling, and we can work around it. Regardless of the Supreme Court's decision, I'm not going to give up on better healthcare for millions of Americans. 

    I have a message for Mr. Romney. You are wasting your money if you think this election is about denigrating me. It's not about me, it's about what is the best plan for the middle class to catch up while the wealthy take a recess. 

    And I am not going to let you dance to this presidency without you yourself offering concrete solutions for advancing the middle class, including health reform, immigration reform and bringing jobs back to America. 

    And Americans are not going to waste the opportunity to find out who you really are and how your candidacy is or is not relevant to their own aspirations and dreams.  

    So, Mr. Romney, get off the fence, and take a stand. Otherwise, stop wasting everyone's time. We have a lot of work to do. "  

     

     

    Comments

    And Americans are not going to waste the opportunity to find out who you really are and how your candidacy is or is not relevant to their own aspirations and dreams. 

    Yes they will Oxy…… it's a proven fact, they will  

    So, Mr. Romney, President Obama get off the fence, and take a stand. Otherwise, stop wasting everyone's time. We have a lot of work to do. " 

    Take a stand and stick to it . ......NO more WINK WINKS 

    Our hopes and aspirations were to deal with NAFTA;  to strengthen our middle class and the Unions.

    NAFTA strengthened Corporate America,   

    http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/we-need-stinking-mandate-14070#comment-158126


    by Resistance on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 5:01pm

    Thank you, Oxy Mora.

     

    As President said, this next election is not about him - it's about America.


    by Wattree on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 7:06pm

    Which America? I suspect it's not the America I want to see. 

    How patriotic...It's about America,.... mom and apple pie.

    Wave the flags, toot the horns 

    Obama says "it's not about him". He's putting America first.  Corporate America? Bankster's of America? 


    by Resistance on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 7:42pm

    Resistance, wouldn't it be ironic if the big banks fell by virtue of their own weight. I don't know if you listen to financial news as I do, Bloomberg, etc., but it is commonplace now for leading commentators to point out that the banks may well decentralize, BofA selling off Merrill, etc. But Obama's neglect in this arena, and that jerk Geithner, still stick in my throat. 


    by Oxy Mora on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 10:48pm

    Keep em honest Oxy.

    I  appreciate your staying on top of these matters.

    I am becoming more cynical these days. 


    by Resistance on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 11:05pm

    Thanks, Wattree. I think Romney has made a big mistake thinking that negative attacks on Obama will mask the need to define himself. Now he is being defined by Obama in the battleground states.


    by Oxy Mora on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 10:45pm

    I do love it, when Obama sticks it to Romney. 


    by Resistance on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 11:08pm

    Love your essay Oxy, it is a good read.


    by tmccarthy0 on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 9:11pm

    Thanks tmac, enjoyed your post. 


    by Oxy Mora on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 10:49pm

    The GOP's new strategery as a whole on this is very strange:

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77870.html

    I don't see the logic of it, at all.  Seems more than ever like they are operating in their own little alternative universe, one where all Americans are Tea Partiers.


    by artappraiser on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 9:39pm

    Thanks Artsy. The Republican strategy seems a little scattered and of course they and I have assumed that a big chunk of the bill will be overturned. But I had an insight today about Scalia's weird behavior this week on immigration. And I wondered whether things went his way on ACA. You might think if he was about to get a big win on ACA that he would now be quietly gloating, waiting for the big kill tomorrow. Maybe ACA didn't go his way and he's displacing his anger. Just sayin'.


    by Oxy Mora on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 10:53pm

    What would really be bad. The Supreme' rationalize, they gave Obama 3 out of 4 on Immigration and now they'll give the "Right" 3 out of 4. 


    by Resistance on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 11:13pm

    My family was discussing what we thought the courts ruling on health care would be. I thought the same thing about Scalia, that he must be real mad about something to risk a statement like that in a court ruling. His statement will be read by every student of law and discussed about the role of Supreme Court. That was a political statement and he will always be known for making one. It will come up when the difference between "rule of man" (political) and the "rule of law" (jurisprudence) is discussed. How far did he step from jurisprudence into politics? This will even come up in undergraduate classes. He just might be mad about health care. I guess we will have to.see.

    by trkingmomoe on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 2:40am

    Every TRUE American, should be as mad as Scalia. 

    Slavery Low wage earners without end, have just come back to America. 

    If you thought 12 million wasn't enough, try a few billion? 

    With this ruling we eliminated the Mason/ Dixon line, the southern border.


    by Resistance on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 2:58am

    E.J. Dionne, Jr., who chooses his rare individual targets carefully, June 27 piece "Justice Scalia Must Resign": http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-jr-justice-scalia-should-resign/2012/06/27/gJQApkO06V_story.html

    This is about as hard as he will ever come down on an individual.


    by AmericanDreamer on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 2:30pm

    Michele Bachmann on the decision: "This is clearly unconstitutional."

    “This is clearly unconstitutional...”

    http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/bachmann-activist-supreme-courts-decision-far-reaching-obamacare-unconstitutional/politics/2012/06/28/42367

    So we have a Supreme Court justice in Scalia who appears to want to be an elected politician, and an elected official in Bachmann who appears to believe she is qualified to be a Supreme Court justice, or at least offer credible views on what the Constitution says.


    by AmericanDreamer on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 3:07pm

    Maybe ACA didn't go his way and he's displacing his anger. Just sayin'.

    Your gut instinct may have been right on, but possibly not just about ACA, but a realization about how the rest of his Supremes career is not going to be going as he had recently come to expect?

    The Roberts Court is Born
    By Adam Winkler, Scotus blog

    [...] With this deft ruling, Roberts avoided what was certain to be a cascade of criticism of the high court. No Supreme Court has struck down a president’s signature piece of legislation in over 75 years. Had Obamacare been voided, it would have inevitably led to charges of aggressive judicial activism.  Roberts peered over the abyss and decided he didn’t want to go there.

    Roberts’ decision was consistent with his confirmation hearings pledge to respect the co-equal branches of government, push for consensus, and reach narrow rulings designed to build broad coalitions on the Court. He promised to respect precedent. His jurisprudence, he said, would be marked by “modesty and humility” and protection of the precious institutional legitimacy of the Court [....]


    by artappraiser on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 12:55pm

    Thanks Artsy. What a great concept---the Roberts Court is born. 

    Funny---just this moment, Rachel Maddow stole my stuff in an interview with Andrea Mitchell. It was almost word for word. 


    by Oxy Mora on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 1:16pm

    Rachel Maddow stole my stuff in an interview with Andrea Mitchell.

    I swear her staff really does that, I've seen too many instances of her saying stuff I just read on a blog discussion. (My laptop set-up faces a TV and I often have the tube on in the background; not a big Rachel fan but it's often ends up on in the background after I watch Hardball.)


    by artappraiser on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 2:14pm

    Sounds like you are buying into a conspiracy theory. Hmm.

      That means there must be some other explanation but I have seen it too in different places and thought the same thing. Just to be contrary [with myself too] I suggest that on most topics there are only a few sensible ways to think about them. If Maddow and her team were to come up with a story line on her own it would almost surely be one that one of the multitude of bloggers had also come up with.

    PS,  HardBall is the show that I don't admit watching.smiley  


    by LULU (not verified) on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 2:39pm

    Only if you consider this a conspiracy:

    paying attention to what's hot on the net in your demographic = higher ratings


    by artappraiser on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 3:15pm

    Oh, DoubleA, say it aint so! Matthews is a dimwitted blowhard, whereas the kindly Dr Maddow is a jewel!

    by jollyroger on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 2:49pm

    Well, whenever I'm having a pretty good day, I can always come to dagblog and read the comments to cure it. No one turns good news into bad news like a Dagmenter.


    by Peter Schwartz on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 4:17pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqqS6MMknM&feature=related


    by A Guy Called LULU on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 4:58pm

    If Erin Burnett dressed like that? 

    Maybe more folks, would tune in to the news?


    by Resistance on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 5:28pm